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What's a sacrificial anode, sagging sampson-post or scum valve?
Featured terms
Cold ironing
Connecting ships to the onshore power supply and shutt down the gensets in order to decrease exhaust emissions and noise.
Buoy
A floating object used as an aid to mariners to mark the navigable limits of channels, their fairways, sunken dangers, isolated rocks etc., or as reference point for navigation or for other purposes.
Shuttle tanker
A tanker intended to carry oil from shelf fi elds not accessible to pipeline systems.